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Film Review: The Two Faces of January

Patricia Highsmith is a criminally underrated American novelist, probably best known for the film adaptations of her work. Her first book, Strangers on a Train, has been adapted several times…

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Rising: We talk with Edinburgh post-rockers Wozniak

We were sort of captured when we heard ‘El Maresme’, the latest single by Edinburgh’s Wozniak. We’ve heard layers of guitars before, but this was something else. Moody, downcast even,…

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Incoming: A Touch of Sin

Written and directed by master filmmaker Jia Zhangke (The World, Still Life), this daring, poetic and grand-scale film focuses on four characters, each living in different provinces, who are driven…

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Album Review: Wye Oak – Shriek

So what do I know about Wye Oak? Well, I know Jenn Wasner has one of those voices you want to hear sing just about anything. It’s a dark and…

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See: Human Hair release Hungers video and announce live dates.

We warned you about Human Hair a month ago. At the time we had the rumour of an album, the threat of some live dates and a tease of a…

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Meet: An interview with Saint Etienne

“Sorry if i kept you waiting, I was mucking around with a Vocoder and lost track of time” To be honest, my conversation with Pete Wiggs doesn’t get any less…

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See: Desperate Journalist release Happening video

Now I sort of like Paul Morley, but if push came to shove, I think I like The Cure more. Seems like London four piece Desperate Journalist do as well,…

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The monster movie isn’t dead, it’s GODZILLA. Directed by Gareth Evans, who made the extraordinary low budget Monsters, Godzilla stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ken Watanabe, Elizabeth Olsen, Juliette Binoche, Sally Hawkins,…

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Not Forgotten – Black Crowes – By Your Side

For a band with such a reputation for shelving whole albums there’s a good argument for By Your Side being the forgotten Black Crowes album. Easily better than anything since…

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Meet: We interview Lancaster punk/psych band Three Dimensional Tanx

Producing this sort of DIY punk-psychedelia from a corner of England is Three Dimensional Tanx. The particular music is infused with this sort of Stooges / MC5 attitude and adrenelin,…

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Film Review: The Two Faces of January

Rising: We talk with Edinburgh post-rockers Wozniak

Incoming: A Touch of Sin

Album Review: Wye Oak – Shriek

See: Human Hair release Hungers video and announce live dates.

Meet: An interview with Saint Etienne

See: Desperate Journalist release Happening video

Incoming: Godzilla

Not Forgotten – Black Crowes – By Your Side

Meet: We interview Lancaster punk/psych band Three Dimensional Tanx